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Custom Placeholder & Audio Placeholder
2 Questions:
1) How can I make a 2 second custom placeholder? When I drag it out from the Solid Backgrounds bin it’s always 10 seconds and I have to change the duration to 2 seconds. Is there a way to make one that is 2 seconds long so I can just use that one when I need it instead of having to change duration all of the time?
2) Is there an audio placeholder? When I drag my Solid Background from the bin onto the timeline I have to move it downward towards the audio until it buts up against it. I would like to just be able to add it to the timeline next to the audio clip.
Thanks
Power Mac
FCP 10.2.1
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2 Replies
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Once you’ve made one, just option drag it to another location.
No audio placeholders. Why do you need a video and/or audio placeholder? Why not use option W?
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1) Do an insert or overwrite, or connect edit from the generator browser. Mark in and out in your Project with a 2 second range and hit q, w, or, d.
1b) Or, simply hit q, select the 10 second generator, hit control-d and type 2, period. That will change the duration to 2 seconds quickly.
1c) I don’t know if your custom placeholder is a motion template, but you can change the duration of the template so that it is 2 seconds. If you are using Apple supplied ones, you can open a copy of those in Motion.
2) If it’s a video generator, see above, otherwise, not sure what an audio placeholder is. If the audio is in a secondary storyline, you can select the shelf and add a video generator to it., otherwise X is going to treat it as a video clip and put it above the primary if you choose to connect it.
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